Substance use

The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) invites applications to renew and expand the Collaboratory on Neural Ensembles and Used Substances (NExUS). NExUS is a collaborative research program to decode how substance use experiences and addictive neurobehavioral states are represented in the brain at the level of cell populations. This funding opportunity seeks applications that propose systematic and scalable methods to identify, map, and analyze groups of neurons that respond to used substances. The goal is to create a comprehensive, multimodal database and use it to test hypotheses about h

…research spans mental health, substance use, cancer prevention and control, violence prevention, sexual and reproductive health, health communication and other areas of prevention, with a commitment to health equity and community-engaged research. The postdoc works with faculty on data analysis, manuscript development and dissemination across the portfolio (about 70% of time) and develops their own scholarly in